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Letter: Too Many People Struggling To Live

How easy to criticize the people who are struggling to make a living. Many are without jobs, have part-time jobs or work at jobs paying low wages. Many are working two jobs to try to make ends meet. Food stamps help. At present, one in four children in America is living in poverty. Many families have worked hard, saved for retirement or to educate their children and lost everything due to an illness. Buy health insurance? Cost of health insurance for a family of four is well over half of what most workers earn. Many people cannot afford medicines prescribed.

The poverty problem is apparently due to the liberals, a term usually meaning Democrats. I read a story about a good Samaritan. He was a liberal. The storyteller was Jesus, another liberal.

Most illegal immigrants are here to work and have a better life for themselves and their families. A person may not approve of how they got here, but they are people who have feelings, same as all of us, and they deserve respect and oftentimes help.